God

I am currently involved in the Institue of Preaching, which is given through Duke Divinity School. If you are in the Western North Carolina or Flordia Conference of the United Methodist Church, I highly recommend this program. It is eye opening and has raised my quality of preaching.

During our last session, we were asked to think about where we have come from. We looked at a poem, “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon. We took almost an hour to look deeply at our past and contemplate where we have come from. We were then asked to write our own, “Where I’m From” poems. Our pasts construct our current selves and I find great power, confidence, and the fingerprints of God’s grace when I look back at how far I have come.

I am the sweat-soaked middle-schooler
the garbler of Shakespeare
creator of giggles with my stumbles